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...matter was most awfully urgent. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire dashed up to London to see her son, Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and his stately wife, the Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil. Lady Mary's mother, the Marchioness of Salisbury, thought it wise to come, too. Reluctantly the Duke agreed that he was the one to speak to his headstrong son-&-heir, William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and a Captain in the Coldstream Guards...
...Duke, the Duchess, the Dowager Duchess and the Marchioness, not to speak of the Kennedys, might have seen it coming. Kathleen had been going with the Marquess since 1938, when Ambassador Joe brought her to London. Paddling about London on a bicycle and working at an American Red Cross Club in Knightsbridge since last summer, Kathleen continued to see the Marquess. Last winter she visited West Derbyshire, when the Marquess tried and failed to win a seat in the House of Commons (TIME, Feb. 28). Apparently, everybody-except the Cavendishes and the Kennedys-understood that Kathleen and the Marquess were...
Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, red-haired mistress to Carol of Rumania, had her face lifted in Mexico by a Manhattan plastic surgeon-said to be lifter by previous royal appointment to Rumania's Queen Marie and the Duchess of Windsor. His 13 stitches were removed after eleven days, were reported to have restored the old Lupescutaneous charm...
...strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, a gentle-born commoner. They have not yet produced a son; the heir, Princess Elizabeth, comes of royal age (18) next month. Her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, is 13. They are a happy family...
...denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently on a charge of trading with the enemy, brought to the U.S. by air, faced the possibility of a treason trial. Manhattan...